Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prospect of being flung on to the scrap heap in a period of rising unemployment is daunting for young men with wives , children and mortgages . |
| 2 | A number of European countries , like the UK , fed a large volume of school-leavers onto the labour market in a period , the 1980s , of economic difficulty . |
| 3 | Spreading the annuity purchase over a period of years will average out rates over that period , but whether this will result in a bigger pension at the end of the day is highly speculative . |
| 4 | Don has erm , been seconded to the Home Office for a period of two years . |
| 5 | With this version of the theory , the change in the exchange rate over a period will equal the differential inflation rates between the two countries . |
| 6 | After remission was achieved , a western type lactose free oral diet was reintroduced in the PEN group within a period no longer than two days . |
| 7 | This last autumn South East Arts tried and experiment in Brighton and organized a series of five so-called fringe theatrical productions at the Pavilion Theatre over a period of two months . |
| 8 | According to Dowie ( 1977 ) , this auto-company sold the Pinto model for a period of six years even though they knew from their own test researchers that the product , which had been rushed from design to production in the short period of twenty-five months instead of the planned forty-three , was dangerous . |
| 9 | We are fortunate to have been Grant Aided by the Sports Council for a period of two years , during which time growth must be shown in all areas of our operation . |
| 10 | And has been resident in the United Kingdom for a period of not less than ten years . ’ |
| 11 | ( a ) Appointment The court has a positive duty to appoint a guardian ad litem in the following proceedings unless satisfied that this is not necessary in order to safeguard the child 's interests ( s41 ) : ( i ) application for a care or supervision order ; ( ii ) direction to investigate under s37 when an interim care order has been made or is under consideration ; ( iii ) application for discharge of a care order ; ( iv ) application for variation or discharge of a supervision order ; ( v ) application to extend a supervision order ; ( vi ) application to substitute a supervision order for a care order ; ( vii ) consideration of a residence order for a child in care ; ( viii ) application relating to contact with a child in care ; ( ix ) proceedings relating to emergency protection and child assessment orders ; ( x ) proceedings relating to secure accommodation orders ; ( xi ) application for leave to change the surname of a child in care ; ( xii ) application for leave to remove a child in care from the United Kingdom for a period exceeding one month ; ( xiii ) application for leave to permit the emigration of a child in care ; ( xiv ) appeal against the making or refusal to make , vary or discharge above orders . |
| 12 | On seeing my person , he took the opportunity to inform me that he had just that moment finalized plans to return to the United States for a period of five weeks between August and September . |
| 13 | I was seized one day with the desire to go to the United States for a period of study . |
| 14 | The indexing is done with respect to a lagged value of the RPI and both the increase in capital value ( the uplift ) and the increase in interest payments depend on the rate of change of the price index to a period eight months earlier . |
| 15 | This loco was one of several allocated to the GC section for a period in the early 60's , seen here at the south end of Nottingham Victoria on a Marylebone semi-fast in July 1962 . |
| 16 | Exponentially growing Rat-1/c-Myc-ER and Rat-1/c-Myc-ER/Bcl-2 cells were arrested in S phase by addition of 2mM thymidine to the growth medium for a period of 24h as described . |
| 17 | You will note that they are initially indicating that you should hold some of the Flybynight stock for a period of two years . |
| 18 | During the Committee Stage of the 1938 Bill an amendment was moved to suspend the death penalty for a period of five years . |
| 19 | It could be the stage setting of a period play , she thought , but it was n't . |
| 20 | They stay in the reception classes for a period of up to three years , after which they are usually dropped into the lowest streams of the schools to which the classes are attached … |